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IT Underworld by Phil Johnson

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Down and out? Nope. Just out.

In which Elias explains to the suit why he can't get there from here.

Posted on 12/1/08 at 2:47 pm | cartoon, humor

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Smart Tech for Small Biz by James Gaskin

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Disk Storage Drops to Dime per Gigabyte

Combining constantly dropping hard disk storage pricing with the holiday desperation on the part of retailers everywhere gave me a sign I've been anticipating: a 1TB (yes, one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes) hard disk drive with a $100 or less price tag. I saw an ad for a 1TB Samsung hard disk for $99.

Posted on 12/1/08 at 11:06 am | 1TB, Flip, Fry's, Samsung

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The Left Field by Sean McGrath

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Implement first, design later

If I were to utter the two words "implementation" and "design" in the context of an IT project, would you be inclined to re-order them in your head? I.e. to think in terms of "design" first and "implementation" second?

Posted on 12/1/08 at 8:28 am | Design Implementation

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Security Visualization by Raffael Marty

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How do you encode hundreds of data points into one single graph? Use Sparklines.

Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you filter data? Did you aggregate multiple nodes into one?

Posted on 11/30/08 at 5:13 pm | network, sparklines, traffic analysis, tufte, visual analysis, visulization

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ITwhirled by Amy Bennett

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Spider loose on the International Space Station?

Two spiders have been launched into space to examine the effects of zero-gravity on their Web spinning. The problem: only one of them seems to be in their little spider home at the moment.

Posted on 11/30/08 at 12:28 pm | NASA

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Unix as a Second Language by Sandra Henry-Stocker

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Linux command: Side by side diff

Tired of looking at strings of "28,30d27" characters separating the differences between files you're comparing? Try a side by side diff listing that works the way your brain does.

Posted on 11/26/08 at 12:46 pm | diff, diffutils, Linux, Sandra Henry-Stocker, side by side, Unix

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Apple: Inside the cult by Josh Fruhlinger

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QuickTime update fixes DRM glitch (sort of)

Apple solves the most glaring problem, but the media cabal puts a real fix out of reach.

Posted on 11/26/08 at 12:50 am | Apple, drm, MacBook

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Windows in the Enterprise by Mitch Tulloch

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PowerPoint deck cleanup

Here's a tip on how to clean up your PowerPoint presentations so you can safely distribute them to customers after having removed sensitive information.

Posted on 11/24/08 at 9:57 am | customer-ready, Mitch Tulloch, PowerPoint

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Virtualize your business by Martha Young

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Leadership - The Millennials Impact on Business

The Millennials, also known as GenY, are defined as those born between 1980 and 2000. According to a 2007 BSG Alliance Concourse Institute’s research study there are approximately 70 million Millennials in the U.S. today. For comparison, the boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, measures in at 79.6 million according to the 2000 U.S. Census. There is an odd fascination with this generation, its rapid adoption of technology and how they fit into the business world.

Posted on 11/18/08 at 6:26 pm | boomers, Business, GenX, GenY, Millennials, sustainability, work/life balance

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Blue Gears - Virtualization Best Practices by Edward Haletky

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VMware HA with ESX v3.5 Update 3

During upgrades there are problems with VMware HA until all hosts in the cluster are at the same update.

Posted on 11/18/08 at 10:52 am | VMware, VMware HA Update 3 ESX

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